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Unforgettable, that's what you are... Gnat King Cole

"That was totally....what's the word I'm looking for?"

'I made a good grade in creative writing, but I didn't do very well in creative spelling.'

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'He was a great writer'

Jorge Luis Borges

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"O.K., she's sitting fown to write in three...two....one...."

'Actually, I don't get out much. I spend most of my time alone, writing lyrical novels celebrating nature and the interconnectedness of all living things!'

"I lost some intellectual property here last night. Anybody remember what the hell I was talking about?"

THE REPORT: Some of this is brilliant, but that can be fixed.

'Not now, dear, I'm trying to listen to the Muse.'

"Remorse sits in my stomach like a piece of stale bread. How does that sound?"

'Ed is a man of few words. And few letters.'

Bee to bee: 'We used buzzwords before they were trendy.'

"Caption contest"

"I like to use new Bible words. Let's beseech Mom for cookies."

"I know R&D feels that the product warrants at least two 'really'."

"But you didn't say they had to make sense - you just told us to write a thousand words a day."

'Yes I think we did go to school together. Wasn't you the old headmistress?'

Weapens of Mass Instruction

Olden Day Battle of the Bands (Bard vs Sonnet).

"My creative writing professor suggested that I write about what I know...from my own experience!"

'This is all without rhyme or reason.'

"I love you, I'll follow you to the ends of the earth, but I'm through getting slippers for someone who hasn't published anything since 1997."

A Poet

Snail: 'Do you mean to tell me I'm not a credible author?!'

"Here's a draft of my speech, Accounts Receivable as Collateral When Obtaining Asset Based Lending. Make it pop."

'I want my ideas called 'concepts' not 'notions'.'

"He has to put a fiver in every time he says 'fiscal imperative' or 'target orientated processes'"